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pith:VE5ZVIOW

pith:2011:VE5ZVIOWKFYN74UH6GSFN7YC6Y

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Experimental realisation of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm using qubit recycling

Anthony Laing, Enrique Martin-Lopez, Jeremy L. O'Brien, Roberto Alvarez, Thomas Lawson, Xiao-Qi Zhou

arxiv:1111.4147 v2 · 2011-11-17 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{VE5ZVIOWKFYN74UH6GSFN7YC6Y}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:40:38.699290Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a93b9aa1d65170dff287f1a456ff02f6171f143de0f46343ece3361dee862e48

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4147 · arxiv_version: 1111.4147v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4147 · pith_short_12: VE5ZVIOWKFYN · pith_short_16: VE5ZVIOWKFYN74UH · pith_short_8: VE5ZVIOW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VE5ZVIOWKFYN74UH6GSFN7YC6Y \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a93b9aa1d65170dff287f1a456ff02f6171f143de0f46343ece3361dee862e48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0950763851749651b9850104139148bba44fb5eff2d3a65e46df5fe39c181dec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-17T16:55:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05dd09eb7253d2a745b06d8a58e1e3e64fcd009818422cc6dc01aaf24f551ef5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}